Residence Hall Network Connection Minimum Requirements

Students living on campus have the opportunity to connect to the UMass Dartmouth Residential Network. If a student desires to have a network connection in his or her room, his or her computer must meet the minimum configurations specified in the table below.

Once students have set up their computers correctly, they are required to register the computer on the network via a web-based registration system. Students authenticate themselves on the network using their email username and password.

Support is available from the ResTech Help Line at x8040 or via email.

Residence Halls Network Connection Minimum Requirements

PC

Macintosh

Processor

Pentium

PowerPC

RAM

256Mb

256Mb

Hard Disk(free space)

500Mb

500Mb

Display

at least 15" color recommended

at least 15" color recommended

CD-ROM

required

required

Software

Windows XP

Mac OSX

Ethernet Card

required

required

Notes:

CRT display sizes indicate the size of the picture tube, not the usable screen area. A typical 17" monitor will have about 15.1" diagonal viewable image size or V.I.S. LCD displays are expressed directly as V.I.S.